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Care Package Goodies: Easy Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

On the occasion of my son’s birthday this weekend, I put together my first care packages of the school year. I’m generally terrible at this type of thoughtfulness but figured I’d also send something to his sister since I was already going to the post office with one box.

It is also good luck that I have somebody living in my house who still has the energy for things like baking, and she made the following treats for her siblings.

I coexisted for about 24 hours with those things, screaming my name from their cooling racks, and only succumbed to eating one of them. But, oh, it was good.

Think outside the box (LOL, get it?) and bring them along to any gathering and you’re guaranteed to be the most popular girl there. Or dude. There are some dudes out there reading this.

You just whip up some peanut butter cookie mix, plop in mini muffin tins and squish a peanut butter cop on top (or kisses if you, like some of us, run out).

Coat miniature muffin tins with non-stick cooking spray. Cut chilled cookie dough into nine (1-inch) slices, then quarter each slice. Place one quarter in each section of muffin tin and bake in a preheated 350°F oven for 7 minutes or until puffy. Remove from oven and place one unwrapped peanut butter cup on each partially baked cookie. Return to oven and bake another 2 to 3 minutes until chocolate is soft. Let cookies cool in tins for 5 minutes then remove from tins and cool completely on baking rack.

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2 thoughts on “Care Package Goodies: Easy Peanut Butter Cup Cookies”

Hi Amy. I make these every Christmas and they get gobbled before I can set them down. Tip: Freeze the peanut butter cups and they are easier to push into the cookie. I have always just pushed the candy into the cookie right when they come out of the oven and are soft. No need to put back in. They are GOOD STUFF!

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Amy is a humorist who writes about things like divorce, parenting slippery teenagers, mid-life dating (or lack thereof) and her irrational fear of tuna fish. A former journalist and online news editor, her personal essays have been featured in Family Circle magazine and on Scary Mommy and Grown and Flown. She told her story on stage of finding the courage to jump off the cliff of indecision into divorce at the 2015 production of Listen to Your Mother North Jersey and sits on the advisory board of Project Write Now in Red Bank, NJ. Amy has also appeared as a panelist on “MomsEveryday,” a syndicated, half-hour program airing in 55 television markets. When she’s not developing social media strategies and creating online content for her clients, Amy can be found Googling her next travel adventure and trying not to eat bread.